With the rise of social media, it’s easy for chatter to take over when it comes to the days leading up to sport trade deadlines or drafts. Insiders across the industry will rush to tweet out and scoop trades or rumors first in an effort to gain notoriety among fans.
Nowadays, these deadlines usually come and pass without nearly as many trades or moves as expected. Fans always get their hopes up just for nearly nothing to happen and the cycle repeats the next year. For both the NBA and NHL, however, 2020 felt different.
Both sports, for once, actually had active trade deadlines.